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Their animals chomp down shrubs, brush, grass and other plants – known as browse – for regular landscaping maintenance and to create defensible buffers of low-brush areas around houses and other buildings for wildfire protection.

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Origin and Etymology of browse

probably modification of Anglo-French brouts, plural of brout sprout, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Saxon brustian to sprout, and perhaps to Old English brēost breast — more at breast